Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-02
WAR ON THE SOLID SOUTH
REPUBLICAN, NPOLITICIANS FULL
OF IDLE HOPES.

The Mountain Chain from Pennsylva-
MIA to the Guif to BE the Scene Of
Their Heaviest Fighting Against the
ImpreRnabie PhaIanxes of the Democ-
racy.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-The National
Council of the National Union League
met here today and elected the follow
ing officers: President, Gen. Charles H.
Grosvenor of Ohio; Vice Presidents, VIM.
Il. Chandler of New Hampshire, Z. A.
Boutelle of Maine, James S. Negley Of
Pennsylvania, Nathan Goff of West Vir-
ginia, j. K. O'Hara of North Carolina, l..
e. Houck of Tennessee. q. X. Bruce of
Mississippi, Thomas r. Rich OF Mary
land, Lewis Mckenzie ofVirginia, Joseph
Robertson of Ohio; Cores ponding Secre-
tary, John E. Bryant of Georgia; Treas
urer, A. NJ. Clapp Of the District of Co.
lumbia.
long preamble and resolutions were
adopted. The preamble says:
Ihe Democratic party has secured control
OF the House of Representatives and the
Presldency by fraud and violence, and seeks
control OF the Senate by similar means. By
fraud and violence the South was made solidly
Democratic, and Is held solid.
THE NEW WAR CRY.
How 10 secure government of the people
and by the people. giving TO each qualified
voter the privilege of casting lust one ballot
at each election, and having the result of the
elections honestly announced, is the great
question in American politics. To secure
such government 1t is necessary that the Re-
publican party should control both houses of
Congress and the Presidency. To accomplish
that object it Is important, if not nec-
essary,. TO increase the Republican
How to strengthen the Republican party
at the South is therefore a question of first
Importance. In the consideration of this
question it is important to have in mind the
TACT that no Republican has been returned as
a member of the Flftieth Congress from a
district in which the Republican voters are
manly colOred, except in Virginia, and in
Chat State the white Republican strength was
sufhclent to secure something like fair eec-
tion.
THE POOR NEGRO.
In a word the general statement may be
made that the Democrats of the South have
by fraud and violence suppressed the cOlored
vote when necessary to give them power, and
thai the only distrlcts held by Republicans
are those in which the white Republican
strength Is sufficient to secure something like
a.. far election: it follows. there
hope that the Republicans have of breaking
the solid South in the immediate future
Is in the section where we now have consid-
cradle white Republican strength, and where
there is reasonable hope that, with proper
effort, we may add to that strength from the
white voters. stretching from Pennsylvania
| aud Ohio, nearly to the Gulf of Mexico, is a
mountainous section whose inhabitants were
for the most part non-slave holders.
FARMERS BUT NOT PLANTERS.
These people were farmers, not planters
During the war majority of these people were
loyal To the Union. This section embraces
West Virginia and portions of Maryland,
kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennes-
see. Georgia and Alabama. In this section
the Republican party now has considerable
strength. Indeed, all the Republicans elected
from Missouri, are from some portion of this
section. Here the Republican party made its
only gains in the South at the last election,
and here, with proper effort. the solid South
may he broken. The National Union League
is peculiarly fitted to lead in the necessary
preparatory work, therefore
ReS,kGsd, That the league will labor to
break the solid South on the line above indi-
Gated.
ResoIUed. That the President appoint COM
mittee of fifteen. of which he snail be char
man, who shall have full authority 10 carry
into effect the policy OF the league.
Under this resolution the President ap-
pointed the following gentlemen as such
committee: G. II. GrOsvenor. ex-officio
OF OhIo; w. e. Chandler, OF New Hamp-
shire; James 5. Negley, OF Pennsylvania; !;
Nathan Goff, OF West Virginia; j. T..
o. Hara. of North Carolina; A. NJ. Clapp,
OF the District of Columbia; j. Z. Bryant,
OF Georgia; Green Is. Raum, of Illinois;
l.. g. Houck, of Tennessee; G. "A. Boutelie,
of Maine; John 4. Lynch, of Mississippi /;
j. ID. Brady, of Virginia; ii. pettibone, OF
Tennessee; +. W. Fox, OF the District of
Columbia; j. 4. Rich, of Mary land.